Contact: Kelly Lawman klawman@bidmc.harvard.edu 617-667-7305 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Antidepressants should only be prescribed with great caution BOSTON – Elevated risk of miscarriage, preterm birth, neonatal health complications and possible longer term neurobehavioral abnormalities, including autism, suggest that a… Read More ›
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Antidepressants linked to risk of brain bleeds: antidepressant users were about 40 to 50 percent more likely to suffer bleeding in or around the brain
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:18 GMT Reuters Oct 18 (Reuters) – People using a common class of antidepressants may have slightly increased odds of suffering bleeding in the brain – though the risk is still very small, according to a… Read More ›
Pregnancy study finds strong association between two antidepressants and heart anomalies
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Annette Whibley wizard.media@virgin.net Wiley-Blackwell Three-country study looks at fluoxetine and paroxetine Women who took the antidepressant fluoxetine during the first three months of pregnancy gave birth to four times as many babies with heart… Read More ›
Taking Prozac? Don’t drive: Pills raise risk of you having an accident by 70%
By Sophie Borland PUBLISHED:19:15 EST, 12 September 2012| UPDATED:19:15 EST, 12 September 2012 Taking common antidepressants heightens the risk of accidents greatly Taking happy pills before driving makes you more prone to accidents, researchers claim. They have found… Read More ›
GPs hand out record 47m Antidepressant prescriptions… a rise of 9% in a year
By Sophie Borland PUBLISHED:19:01 EST, 31 July 2012 | UPDATED:19:43 EST, 31 July 2012 Record numbers of adults are relying on Prozac and other so-called happy pills, according to NHS figures Almost 50million prescriptions were handed out by doctors… Read More ›
Ads for SSRI antidepressants are misleading, say researchers
Consumer ads for a class of antidepressants called SSRIs often claim that depression is due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, and that SSRIs correct this imbalance, but these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, say researchers in… Read More ›